Body bag

Body Bag
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Body Bag - When Third Party Grading Services believe a coin has a significant problem that they will not encapsulate the coin, the coin is returned in a plastic polyvinyl bag inside a flip. That bag is affectionately known as a Body Bag.

Body Bag
If a coin is sent to a Third Party Grading Service and they determine that it has such a significant problem that they will not encapsulate the coin, the coin is returned to the collector/dealer in a plastic polyvinyl bag.

body bag Slang term for a coin returned from a grading service in a plastic sleeve within a flip. The coin referred to is a no-grade example and was not graded or encapsulated.

Body Bag
Slang term, referring to a returned coin from a grading service without a grade, due to a problem with the coin, such as cleaned, artificial toning, etc.

Body Bag
Refers to a coin returned "un-certifiable" by one of the grading services. The coin is returned in a POLY-BAG rather than the normal plastic SLAB.

Body Bag First heard on the bourse floors of America circa 1994. Refers to a coin returned (rejected for grading) by one of the two major third-party- grading services, PCGS and NGC.

BN Short for Brown body bag Slang term for a coin returned from a grading service in a plastic sleeve within a flip. The coin referred to is a no-grade example and was not graded or encapsulated.

Sometimes they will send back the coin, not in a slab, but in a plastic baggy known as a 'body bag' with a statement that they cannot grade the coin because it has been cleaned/altered or is of uncertain authenticity.

See also: ALTERED, TOOLED, BODY BAG, WHIZZED.
Clip
Sometimes used to denote an incomplete planchet coin; in earlier days, ...

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